Album review of Eyes On The Highway

Saybia – The mediocrities masters

I would like to say something nice about Saybia, at least to surprise my self. I just don’t know what it should be. Okay, they are properly some very nice guys, and they can sing and play way more than the ordinary. And they are also very popular – they have sold more than ½ million copies of their first 2 albums.

So it’s clear, why the guys continue down the same worn-down road. It’s still the same emotional, melancholic, middle-tempo rock of which, there goes 13 in a dozen. And Saybia is actually not much worse than names such Travis, Keane, Starsailor, Coldplay, and all the rest, nor better.

Patos-filled lyrics
The only place, there Saybia stands out, is the fact that they are Danes. And this can’t be heard. Except from the quintets absolute Achilles-heal, Søren Huus’ Patos-filled lyrics in school-English, which croons with a passion, noble to a worthy cause.

If one, in the name of the big international breakthroughs holy name, should insist using one of the world’s richest languages, at least some time at school, studying language, would be appreciated – or just reading a book for that matter – so it would be possible to raise above the most used and cliché-filled phrases.

Stopped long time ago
Then Huus in ’Romeo’ sings: ’We meet in a kiss/of infinite bliss/as I open my eyes/and see my Juliet/I’m all in on a lifetime romance’. You can’t mean that we should take it serious?

I’m for one stopped long time ago. And I don’t get caught again by the competent yet somehow mediocre material, which sees the eternal return of the same as its foremost goal.